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The Fund in 2025: Shoulder to Shoulder reflects on a year of unprecedented challenges, where the RBF and its grantees drew on decades of investment in civil society and the strength of collective action.

The Fund in 2024: An Interdependent World explores the ways the RBF and its grantees scored victories in the face of uncertainty by finding intersections across issues, geographies, and ideologies.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund released a new report by its president and CEO, Stephen Heintz, urging swift and holistic reform of global governance institutions to respond to urgent transnational challenges. 

The RBF is committed to reducing emissions from our investment portfolio to align with climate goals long supported by our grantmaking.

A new anthology tells the stories of impact investors and entrepreneurs, climate litigants, frontline defenders, and environmental advocates and activists who have opened pathways to a more sustainable development path.

Upstart Co-Lab's The Guide: what cultural institutions need to know about investing for values and mission describes how impact investing can help cultural organizations multiply their impact and invest in the creative economy.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, co-chaired by Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz, launched its final report with recommendations to reinvent U.S. democracy to be more representative, responsive, and effective.

An excerpt from the new anthology "Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People," released today by The New Press. Are those who have profited from our current economic system in a position to challenge its fundamental, undemocratic premises?

Informed by a new report from the Knight Foundation, several foundations have begun to explore how we can better support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the investment space.

The enduring challenges we face today require us to elevate lived experience and value it with the same enthusiasm and passion that we have historically valued learned knowledge.